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| The Holiday Show by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 44. No chorus. Lots of characters, but lots of flexibility for doubling. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of weather-themed sketches linked by the format of a fictional TV news/current affairs show. |
| Synopsis | A TV show about the British Weather and global warming, designed for a class presentation. |
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Hood by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] Plus additional time for songs and dances. |
| Music | Production notes list recommended songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Not a true British Pantomime (lacks, for example, the ritual audience participation and pantomime dame), but contains many of the ingredients - plenty of jokes and extravagant characters. |
| Synopsis | The Sheriff of Nottingham has taken over Loxley Manor and plans to marry Marian. Prince John is coming to the wedding, together with his personal assistant and a passing bishop. Robin Hood assembles his Merry Men but with unexpected plans. |
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| Hornet Girl by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Chorus. The chorus is not essential, but the numbers of soldiers and peasants is flexible, particularly if music is to be incorporated in the production. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act comedy for kids. Nominally two sets, but no specific requirements for either. Whilst it isn't a musical, it would be possible for songs or dances to be incorporated (in one place, for example, it would give more time for a costume change.) |
| Synopsis | A poor family of tenant farmers is in danger of eviction by the cruel baron until a comic book super-hero turns up in the form of Hornet Girl. The Baron realises that wherever there are super-heroes, there are super-villains, and he sets out to get one on his side. Enter Kaptain Kruelty to do whatever is the opposite of saving the day... |
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| Humbug by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol presented as a short comedic play for kids. |
| Synopsis | When Jacob Marley dies he keeps his promise to come back and haunt his mean-spirited business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge has a particularly parsimonious attitude to Christmas and this reflects itself his treatment of his long-suffering employees, Bob and Molly Cratchit. In case Jacob's efforts to get Ebenezer to change his ways don't meet with success, he enlists the help of three ghostly friends. Will Christmas still be humbug or will Ebenezer see the light? |
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| In the Lap of the Gods by Philip Bird (music Isabelle Michalakis) |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. The characters are a class of schoolchildren, divided into four groups. Each group acts out Greek myths. Whilst some of the characters in the myths have a specific gender, this need not be the gender of the actor. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with scores for three original songs. Further dances can be added at the discretion of the production. |
| Style | One-act musical play for a full class of children, providing roles for all and an introduction to several Greek myths. |
| Synopsis | A group of children are shipwrecked on an island, and all they can find is a strange chest with a very odd collection of contents. The items inside help the children tell some old stories and keep up their spirits through the night until they are rescued the next day. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| The Innkeeper's Cat by Liz Ansell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. Very flexible casting. The script specifies the numbers of various character types, but they do not have individual lines, so numbers can be varied in either direction. |
| Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Lyrics to familiar out-of-copyright tunes are embedded in the script (with additional lyrics that fit to a copyrighted song supplied in the Producer's copy of the script). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Nativity play for young children (with enough roles for a primary school class). |
| Synopsis | The Innkeeper's cat, Moses, is constantly disturbed and gets a little annoyed by all the fuss and visitors going on in the stables but his mood soon changes when he sees the new born baby. |
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| Intelligent Life? by Peter Keel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A light comedy sketch, for youth ages. |
| Synopsis | A great day has dawned... and the members of the press are meeting a representative of a species from outer space! Sadly for them, the results are a little underwhelming. |
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| It's Christmas Time! by Sharon Stace-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Flexible cast plus the option of a separate choir (otherwise choir pieces are sung by the acting ensemble.) |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] (Run time of the first production was 35 minutes!) |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for the 9 songs plus optional overture and 8 pieces of incidental music. |
| Style | A musical nativity play for schools, with minimal staging requirements. |
| Synopsis | A lop eared donkey who wants to be a horse, sets the scene for this nativity play with a difference. |
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Jack and his Amazing Multi-Coloured Beanstalk by Geoff Bamber
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Though it is not specified in the script, Jack's Mother could be played by a Male (as a pantomime dame) and Jack could be played by a Female (as a panto principal boy). Cast includes a pantomime cow. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple English pantomime. Simple sets. Lots of strong characters, lots of comedy. |
| Synopsis | Jack's family are so poor that they must sell their treasured cow. Unfortunately they entrust the job to Jack, whose profit is a handful of beans. The result is a beanstalk and an attempt to rescue the kidnapped princess. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Pantomime Fun-Packs - jokes and games for children, to supplement the programme for your show
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| Jackie and the Bean Tin by Marcus Grollman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | No specific music or song suggestions, but there are options for song and dance interludes between scenes. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | One-act play for kids. |
| Synopsis | A few twist to the time-honoured tale of boy meets beans. This time it's a girl and the point is not to rid the world of ogres but to make sure that there are enough frightening ogres to go round! |
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